Hit & Run > SEIU's Chavista Legal Team Cribs from Obama, Threatens Broadcasters - Reason Magazine

Well... we hopin' for change and we a gettin' it. Can you just imagine Bush or Reagan telling a broadcaster what they can run and what they can't? LOL... the press would have crucified them. But, in Amerika today... well, we just gonna keep our heads low so they don't notice us... Thanks, those with high moral authority, we appreciate you watching out for Obama... screw us... we don't matter.

BTW... the ad in question is indeed truthful. No secret ballot? How could any American want to vote for no secret ballot? But in O's amerika... sounds good.

Hit & Run > SEIU's Chavista Legal Team Cribs from Obama, Threatens Broadcasters - Reason Magazine:

"According to this letter obtained by TPM, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is threatening television stations broadcasting this anti-card check advertisement produced by the Employee Freedom Action Committee. In the letter (viewable here), SEIU lawyer Dora V. Chen tells stations in Arkansas and Nebraska that they should 'immediately cease airing this false and deceitful advertisement.' Says Ms. Chen, 'political organizations do not have a 'right to command the use of broadcast facilities''—i.e., airing third party political advertisements television stations are not bound by the First Amendment—reminding station executives that they are under 'no legal obligation to air the advertisement' but it they do the affiliate 'bears responsibility for its content.' If the Chavista implications of these threats are still unclear, the SEIU puts it in sharper relief, obliquely threatening the station's broadcast licenses:"